obsecratio

hŭmĭlĭtas, ātis, f. [humilis], lowness (acc. to humilis, I.).

Lit.:

naves omnes actuarias imperat fieri, quam ad rem humilitas multum adjuvat (shortly before: naves paulo facit humiliores),

Caes. B. G. 5, 1, 3:

arborum,

Sall. J. 49, 5:

aliorum animalium ea est humilitas, ut cibum terrestrem rostris facile contingant,

low stature, Cic. N. D. 2 47, 122:

sidera multum inter se aut altitudine aut humilitate distantia,

id. Tusc. 5, 24, 69:

quanta humilitate luna feratur, terram paene contingens,

id. Div. 2, 43, 91.—

Trop.

Of rank, birth, or influence, lowness, meanness, insignificance: malorum turba quaedam, paupertas, ignobilitas, humilitas, solitudo, etc., Cic. Tusc. 5, 10, 29:

propter humilitatem et obscuritatem,

id. Off. 2, 13, 45:

humilitatem cum dignitate contendere,

id. Rosc. Am. 47, 136:

alicujus despicere,

id. Phil. 13, 10, 23:

obicere humilitatem alicui,

Liv. 26, 31, 4:

ex humilitate sua,

Caes. B. G. 5, 25:

infima natalium,

Plin. 18, 6, 7, § 37:

generis,

Sall. J. 73, 4:

generis ac nominis,

Suet. Vesp. 4:

obliterata quoque scrutabimur, nec deterrebit quarundam rerum humilitas,

Plin. 14, 1, 1, § 7.—

Littleness of mind, meanness, baseness, abjectness:

habet levitatem laetitia gestiens, humilitatem metus,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 27; id. de Or. 1, 53, 228:

et dejecto (capite) humilitas et supino arrogantia ostenditur,

Quint. 11, 3, 69; so,

opp. arrogantia,

Caes. B. C. 1, 85, 5:

saepe virtus et magnificentia plus proficit ad misericordiam commovendam quam humilitas et obsecratio,

Cic. Inv. 1, 56, 109:

summittere se in humilitatem causam dicentium,

Liv. 38, 52, 2:

asinorum,

Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 180.—

In eccl. Lat., in a good sense, opp. to pride, lowness, humility, Lact. 5, 15; Sulp. Sever. Vit. S. Mart. 2 fin. et saep.

pignus, ŏris and ĕris (old form in plur.:

pignosa pignora eodem modo quo valesii, auselii... dicebantur,

Fest. p. 213 Müll.), n. [root pac-, of pango; cf. paciscor], a pledge, gage, pawn, security, mortgage (of persons as well as things).

Lit.:

opponere se pigneri,

Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 85:

ager oppositus est pignori,

Ter. Phorm. 4, 3, 56:

servus, quem hic reliqueram Pignus pro me,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 19:

quo facto pignore animos centurionum devinxit,

Caes. B. C. 1, 39:

rem alicujus pignori accipere,

Tac. H. 3, 65:

pignora apud se deposita persequi et vindicare,

Paul. Sent. 5, 26, 4:

sub pignoribus mutuas pecunias accipere,

Dig. 13, 7, 12:

habere aliquid pignori,

ib. 20, 4, 2:

liberare pignus a creditore,

ib. 20, 4, 4:

pignoribus cavere alicui,

ib. 43, 3, 2: aurum [p. 1376] pignori apud aliquem ponere, ib. 13, 7, 27:

viginti milia faenus pignoribus positis,

income from mortgages, Juv. 9, 141.—Esp., of the security for the payment of his fine, which was taken by the consul of a senator who failed to attend in the Senate:

pignus auferre,

Cic. de Or. 3, 1, 4: pignoribus terreri, Crass. ib.; so,

senatores pignoribus cogere,

Cic. Phil. 1, 5, 12:

pignora capere,

Liv. 3, 38, 12;

of hostages,

id. 33, 22:

marium pignora,

male hostages, Suet. Aug. 21: pignus praetorium, the security which the prœtor took as a guarantee for the preservation of a thing when he put it in the possession of a creditor, or fidei commissarius, Dig. 13, 7, 26; 41, 5, 12.—

Esp., in phrases.

Pignus capere, to take a pledge or security for payment:

certis verbis pignus capiebatur,

Gai. Inst. 4, 29; 26 al.—

Pignora capere, to issue execution, make seizure of property:

Vettium, pignoribus captis, cojecit in carcerem,

Suet. Caes. 17:

eorum, qui debita confessi sunt, pignora capi et distrahi possunt,

Paul. Sent. 5, 5 A, 4:

per vim debitoris sui pignora, cum non haberet obligata, capere,

id. ib. 5, 26, 4.—

Pignoris capio, a proceeding by which the summary collection of certain debts was secured, Gai. Inst. 4, 26 (v. Sandars ad Just. Inst. introd. § 96).—

Transf.

The object of a wager, a wager, stake:

da pignus, ni ea sit filia,

lay a wager, bet, Plaut. Ep. 5, 2, 34; so id. ib. 36:

cum illo dare,

id. Bacch. 4, 9, 133:

pignore certare cum aliquo,

Verg. E. 3, 31:

quovis pignore contendere,

to lay any wager, bet any thing, Cat. 44, 4:

et quaerit posito pignore vincat uter,

Ov. A. A. 1, 168:

in quodvis pignus vocare, ni, etc.,

Gell. 5, 4, 2:

ponere pignus cum aliquo de re aliquā,

Val. Max. 4, 3, 3.—

A contract in which security is given, Dig. 13, 7, 1; 20, 6, 3.—

Trop.

A pledge, token, assurance, proof:

magnum pignus ab eo rei publicae datum, se, etc.,

Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 4:

pignora voluntatis,

id. Cael. 32, 78:

injuriae,

id. Phil. 13, 3, 6:

societatis,

Tac. H. 4, 61:

sceleris,

id. ib. 4, 57:

imperii,

id. ib. 3, 72:

reconciliatae gratiae pignus,

Curt. 6, 7, 35:

pignora da, genitor, per quae tua vera propago Credar,

sure tokens, Ov. M. 2, 38; 5, 247; 7, 497:

in vultu pignora mentis habet,

id. A. A. 2, 378:

digito pignus fortasse dedisti,

i. e. a ring, Juv. 6, 27.—

Concr.

Children, parents, brothers and sisters, relatives, as pledges of love (only after the Aug. period):

nunc tibi commendo communia pignora, natos,

Prop. 4 (5), 11, 73; Ov. M. 11, 543:

prolemque gemellam Pignora bina dedi,

id. H. 6, 121:

tot natos natasque et pignora cara nepotes,

id. M. 3, 134:

ascita pignora,

Stat. S. 2, 1, 86:

pignora conjugum ac liberorum,

Liv. 2, 1, 5:

obsecratio illa judicum, per carissima pignora, utique, si et reo sint liberi, conjux, parentes, utilis erit,

Quint. 6, 1, 33:

habens filiam, uxorem, nepotem, sorores, interque tot pignora veros amicos,

Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 3; Tac. A. 12, 2:

proxima pignora,

id. ib. 15, 36:

ne in conjugem, in familiam, in cetera pignora ejus saeviret,

id. ib. 16, 26; id. G. 7:

frangi aspectu pignorum suorum,

id. Agr. 38.—Hence, in gen.,

Any thing especially valuable or dear:

si quis post pignera tanta Pompeio locus est,

Luc. 7, 376.—

Poet. transf., a graft, scion, Pall. Insit. 109.

supplĭcĭum ( subpl-), ii, n. [supplex; prop. a kneeling down, either as a suppliant or to receive punishment].

As a suppliant.

In relig. lang., humiliation, a public prayer or supplication, an act of worship (mostly ante-Aug. and in prose after the Aug. period; not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn.: supplicatio, obsecratio): nunc pergam, ut suppliciis placans caelitum aras expleam, Att. ap. Non. 398, 19; cf.:

deos suppliciis, sumptu, votis, donis, Precibus plorans, obsecrans,

Afran. ib. 398, 22:

suppliciis votisque fatigare deos,

Liv. 27, 50, 5:

non votis neque suppliciis muliebribus auxilia deorum parantur,

Sall. C. 52, 29.—

Esp., a sacrificing, offering:

nihil ei (Jovi) acceptum est a perjuris supplicii,

offering, sacrifice, Plaut. Rud. prol. 25:

in suppliciis deorum magnifici,

Sall. C. 9, 2; id. J. 55, 1:

precibus suppliciisque deos placare,

Liv. 22, 57, 5; cf.:

quos (boves) ad deorum servant supplicia,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 10:

tum supplicia dis ludique magni ab senatu decernuntur,

Tac. A. 3, 64 Nipperd. ad loc.:

vannos onustas aromatis et hujuscemodi suppliciis congerunt,

App. M. 11, p. 265, 3; id. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 16, 5: supplicia veteres quaedam sacrificia a supplicando vocabant, Fest. pp. 308 and 309 Müll. —

Transf., out of the relig. sphere, an humble entreaty or petition, a supplication in gen. (very rare):

Vagenses fatigati regis suppliciis,

Sall. J. 66, 2:

igitur legatos ad consulem cum suppliciis mittit, qui tantummodo ipsi liberisque vitam peterent,

id. ib. 46, 2.—

To receive punishment; hence, punishment, penalty, torture, torment, pain, distress, suffering (class. and freq.; usu. of the penalty of death; syn. poena).

Sing.:

dabitur pol supplicium mihi de tergo vestro,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 75 sq.; cf.:

illi de me supplicium dabo,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 86; id. Eun. 1, 1, 24; Cat. 116, 8; Nep. Paus. 5, 5:

de homine nobili virgis supplicium crudelissime sumere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 37, § 91; 2, 5, 45, § 117:

sumere (de aliquo),

Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 72; id. Merc. 5, 4, 31; Ter. And. 3, 5, 17; Cic. Inv. 2, 28, 84; id. Rep. 3, 33, 45; Caes. B. G. 1, 39; Liv. 2, 5, 5; 3, 18, 10:

aliquem hostibus ad supplicium dedere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 26:

aliquem tradi ad supplicium jubere,

Tac. A. 11, 35:

rapi,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 138:

supplicio affici,

to be put to death, Caes. B. G. 1, 27:

ne ad ultimum supplicium progredi necesse habeant,

to take their own lives, id. B. C. 1, 84:

aliquem vinculis ac verberibus atque omni supplicio excruciatum necare,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11:

summo cruciatu supplicioque perire,

id. N. D. 3, 33, 81:

gravissimum ei rei supplicium cum cruciatu constitutum est,

Caes. B. G. 6, 17: [p. 1815] talis improborum consensio supplicio omni vindicanda (est), Cic. Lael. 12, 43:

satis supplicii tulisse,

Caes. B. C. 1, 84:

supplicio culpa reciditur,

Hor. C. 3, 24, 34:

suā manu supplicium persolvere,

Tac. A. 6, 32 (26):

luere,

Just. 2, 5, 6; Tac. A. 15, 60:

supplicium redimere opimā mercede,

Amm. 26, 3, 4.—

Plur.:

ad exquisita supplicia proficisci,

Cic. Off. 3, 27, 100:

semper iis (improbis) ante oculos judicia et supplicia versentur,

id. Rep. 3, 16, 26:

ad innocentum supplicia descendunt,

Caes. B. G. 6, 17:

supplicia annua pendere,

Plin. 29, 4, 14, § 57:

subire,

Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 12, 1:

suppliciis delicta coërcere,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 79:

subplicia in post futuros conposuit,

Sall. H. 1, 41, 6 Dietsch:

domant impios saeva supplicia,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 749:

supplicia haurire,

Verg. A. 4, 383.

supplĭcĭum ( subpl-), ii, n. [supplex; prop. a kneeling down, either as a suppliant or to receive punishment].

As a suppliant.

In relig. lang., humiliation, a public prayer or supplication, an act of worship (mostly ante-Aug. and in prose after the Aug. period; not in Cic. or Cæs.; syn.: supplicatio, obsecratio): nunc pergam, ut suppliciis placans caelitum aras expleam, Att. ap. Non. 398, 19; cf.:

deos suppliciis, sumptu, votis, donis, Precibus plorans, obsecrans,

Afran. ib. 398, 22:

suppliciis votisque fatigare deos,

Liv. 27, 50, 5:

non votis neque suppliciis muliebribus auxilia deorum parantur,

Sall. C. 52, 29.—

Esp., a sacrificing, offering:

nihil ei (Jovi) acceptum est a perjuris supplicii,

offering, sacrifice, Plaut. Rud. prol. 25:

in suppliciis deorum magnifici,

Sall. C. 9, 2; id. J. 55, 1:

precibus suppliciisque deos placare,

Liv. 22, 57, 5; cf.:

quos (boves) ad deorum servant supplicia,

Varr. R. R. 2, 5, 10:

tum supplicia dis ludique magni ab senatu decernuntur,

Tac. A. 3, 64 Nipperd. ad loc.:

vannos onustas aromatis et hujuscemodi suppliciis congerunt,

App. M. 11, p. 265, 3; id. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 16, 5: supplicia veteres quaedam sacrificia a supplicando vocabant, Fest. pp. 308 and 309 Müll. —

Transf., out of the relig. sphere, an humble entreaty or petition, a supplication in gen. (very rare):

Vagenses fatigati regis suppliciis,

Sall. J. 66, 2:

igitur legatos ad consulem cum suppliciis mittit, qui tantummodo ipsi liberisque vitam peterent,

id. ib. 46, 2.—

To receive punishment; hence, punishment, penalty, torture, torment, pain, distress, suffering (class. and freq.; usu. of the penalty of death; syn. poena).

Sing.:

dabitur pol supplicium mihi de tergo vestro,

Plaut. As. 2, 4, 75 sq.; cf.:

illi de me supplicium dabo,

Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 86; id. Eun. 1, 1, 24; Cat. 116, 8; Nep. Paus. 5, 5:

de homine nobili virgis supplicium crudelissime sumere,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 37, § 91; 2, 5, 45, § 117:

sumere (de aliquo),

Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 72; id. Merc. 5, 4, 31; Ter. And. 3, 5, 17; Cic. Inv. 2, 28, 84; id. Rep. 3, 33, 45; Caes. B. G. 1, 39; Liv. 2, 5, 5; 3, 18, 10:

aliquem hostibus ad supplicium dedere,

Caes. B. G. 7, 26:

aliquem tradi ad supplicium jubere,

Tac. A. 11, 35:

rapi,

Cic. de Or. 2, 59, 138:

supplicio affici,

to be put to death, Caes. B. G. 1, 27:

ne ad ultimum supplicium progredi necesse habeant,

to take their own lives, id. B. C. 1, 84:

aliquem vinculis ac verberibus atque omni supplicio excruciatum necare,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 5, 11:

summo cruciatu supplicioque perire,

id. N. D. 3, 33, 81:

gravissimum ei rei supplicium cum cruciatu constitutum est,

Caes. B. G. 6, 17: [p. 1815] talis improborum consensio supplicio omni vindicanda (est), Cic. Lael. 12, 43:

satis supplicii tulisse,

Caes. B. C. 1, 84:

supplicio culpa reciditur,

Hor. C. 3, 24, 34:

suā manu supplicium persolvere,

Tac. A. 6, 32 (26):

luere,

Just. 2, 5, 6; Tac. A. 15, 60:

supplicium redimere opimā mercede,

Amm. 26, 3, 4.—

Plur.:

ad exquisita supplicia proficisci,

Cic. Off. 3, 27, 100:

semper iis (improbis) ante oculos judicia et supplicia versentur,

id. Rep. 3, 16, 26:

ad innocentum supplicia descendunt,

Caes. B. G. 6, 17:

supplicia annua pendere,

Plin. 29, 4, 14, § 57:

subire,

Cic. Ep. ad Brut. 1, 12, 1:

suppliciis delicta coërcere,

Hor. S. 1, 3, 79:

subplicia in post futuros conposuit,

Sall. H. 1, 41, 6 Dietsch:

domant impios saeva supplicia,

Sen. Herc. Fur. 749:

supplicia haurire,

Verg. A. 4, 383.

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